Police in the UK have arrested five people in connection with fatal house fire in Leicester

The fire broke out at the home in Leicester in the early hours of yesterday morningMuhammad Taufiq al-Sattar spoke publicly for the first time about the loss of his familyNeighbours reacted with disbelief to the idea that the family could have been intentionally killed

Police in the UK have arrested five people in connection with the fatal house fire in Leicester.

Three women aged 19, 20 and 27 and two men aged 49 and 19, were arrested this afternoon.

A murder investigation was launched on Friday after Shehnila Taufiq, who was in her 40s, her daughter Zainab, 19, and sons Jamal, 17, and 15-year-old Bilal died in the blaze at a house in Wood Hill.